This weekend, the lovely and generous  
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I have my first assigned task from my boss, Professor Famous: make 145 copies of the (12 pg!) syllabus. I have the syllabus saved to my computer. I have a meeting scheduled with Prof. Famous and the other TA's for tomorrow afternoon. I have a list of school supplies to buy tomorrow in preparation for my first discussion section (23 students!) ( Read more... )

Poll

People in my English class are still hashing out the "Yellow Wallpaper" conversation over e-mail. It has been 4 days since we discussed this topic in class. I would just like to reiterate that the story is only 17 pages long. They have been at this all weekend long.
Heh. Suddenly I feel like less of a geek. Definitely not the biggest geek in this ( Read more... )

I got The Girl a gift card for Build-a-Bear workshop for xmas, so today was the inevitable trip into post-holiday retail chaos. the nearest Build-a-Bear is in Disneyland, so it was bonus consumption mayhem. As soon as we turned onto Disneyland Ave. (that's really what it's called) I suddenly got the feeling that I had become miniaturized and was in ( Read more... )

I am taking a break from alternately inserting and removing dashes, commas and semicolons from various places in the manuscript. Also, the formatting on my endnotes needs correction because it is not correct to transpose the authors first and last name in Chicago Manual Style. All this for a paper that is going to sit on a top shelf in the library ( Read more... )

In the past several weeks, I have come to think of the thesis process as American Idol; a sort of Academic Idol if you will. After all, it is essentially my one shot at success, or at least my one chance to graduate this term. Moreover, the next step after this level is a trip to Hollywood (or at least a five year stint in L.A., which is really ( Read more... )

forty two pages of text, two and a half pages of bibliographic references and I am backing away from the computer for the first time in more than two days. Hell yeah!

Two days ago there was sun on my face, now it is snowing and I don't even know if I will be able to get to school. It's March for pete's sake! Is seasonal weather really too much to ask for ( Read more... )